Mustang

This guitar is made using triple layering similar to the Victoria guitar.  It has an offset body shape that vaguely resembles a Fender Mustang, however the headstock is a 3 x 3 style of my own shape.  The triple layering makes it unnecessary to have an arm cutout although there is a belly cut for comfort.

​The Daisy seed based digital electronics uses passive-style knobs (rather than encoders like on the Victoria).  There also are no presets: the knobs have indicators and what you see is what you get.  The functions of the knobs:
- volume
- pickup selector
- tone (using a comb filter)
- drive (for overdrive/distortion)
​- effect (for phaser-to-chorus)

25 inch, 3 pickup

The version to the right is a 25​ inch scale length with three pickups.  The positioning and wiring of the three lipstick-style pickups is different than the usual three single-coil.  The middle and bridge pickups are positioned to be at the  "sweet spots" of the 4th and 8th harmonics.  Also, the position 2 and 4 combine the neck/middle and middle/bridge in series, yielding a sound similar to humbucker pickups.

24 inch, 2 pickup

The design on the left is for a 24 inch, two pickup version.   Since there are only two pickups the signal from each can enter the Daisy seed (which has only 2 analog inputs) and be mixed digitally.  This allows an analog knob to be used to blend the pickup signals:
- neck only (fully counter-clockwise)
- bridge only (half-way)
- bridge minus neck (fully clockwise)